Animal-forceps.



APPLICATION FILED 00111, 1907.

PATENT-ED MAY 5, 1908.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE."

FRANK M. ROWE AND THEODORE W. REIMER, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

ANIMAL-FORCEPS Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1908.

Application filed October 11, 1907. Serial No. 397,007.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK M. Bowie and THEODORE W. REIMER, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago andState of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inAnimal-Forceps, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to construct an animal forceps in whicha head has a slidable engagement with its support and a head having afixed connection with the support,'fingers having a pivotal connectionwith the slidable head. and a movable engagement with the fixed head,and means for moving the slidable head.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a representation of theforceps closed. Fig. 2 is a representation of the forceps open. Fig. 3is an end view in which the fingers are open. Fig. 4 is an end View inwhich the fingers are closed. Fig. 5 is a section on dotted lines a aFig. 1. Fig. 6 is a section on dotted line b b Fig. 1. Fig. 7 is asection on dotted line c Fig. 1.

A support 1 in this instance is square in cross-section but may be ofother angular form. To one end of this support is fixedly connected across-bar 2 having projecting handle portions. A head 3 has a fixedconnection with the other end of the support 1. On the su port 1 islocated a head 4 in a manner to slide lengthwise thereof and held fromaxial or turning movement.

T o the slidable head 4 are fixedly connected three rods 5 which arelocated parallel with the support 1 and extend through holes in thecrossbar 2. The free ends of the rods 5 are fixedly connected with thehand-hold 6 by the ends of the rods being screw-threaded, and nuts 7turned in connection therewith and located on either side of one of thefaces of the hand-hold.

To the slidable head are pivotally connected three fingers 8 by the pins9. These fingers pass through openings 10 in the fixed head 3 and totheir free ends are secured balls 11. The fixed head is formed withthree facial grooves 12 and three semi-cylindrical cavities 13, a grooveand a cavity for the free end of each finger.

At Figs. 1 and 4 the free ends of the fingers are located in the grooves12, and cavities 13 in order that no sharp protruding surfaces will bepresented. By holding the cross-bar 2 in one hand the fixed head will beheld stationary, then by moving the hand-hold 6 the rods will be movedlengthwise of the support, which will slide the head 4 on its support.This movement of the support will force the fingers through the openings10 in the stationary head thereby causing them to open or expand intothe positions shown at Figs. 2 and 3. This expanding movement is causedby the openings 10, in the fixed head? being located a greater distancefrom the center of the head than the pins 9 are from the center of thesupport 1. When the fingers are nearly closed, it will take quite amovement of the slidable head to close them, consequently the forceexerted by the fingers will be considerable.

In using the term fixed for the head 3, and slidable for the head 4 itis to be understood that the heads move toward and from one another andthese terms are used as though the head 3 was stationary, and the head 4movable, but the head 3 may be movable and the head 4 stationary or bothmovable so long as a movement is had one with relation to the other.

We claim as our invention.

1. An animal forceps comprising a support, a head having a fixedconnection with the support, a head having a slidable engagement withthe support, fingers having a pivotal connection with the slidable headand a movable engagement with the fixed head, and means for moving oneof said heads to open and close the fingers.

2. An animal forceps comprising a support, a head having a fixedconnection with the support, a head having a slidable engagement withthe support, fingers having a pivotal connection with the slidable headand passing through openings in the fixed head, a hand-hold and aconnection between the slidable head and hand-hold.

3. An animal forceps comprising a support, I the slidable head andpassing through holes a head having a fixed connection with the in thecross-bar, and a hand-hold connected 10 support, a head having aslidable and nonwith the rods.

rotatable engagement with the support, fin- FRANK M. ROWE.

gers having a pivotal connection with the THEODORE W. REIMER. slidablehead and a movable engagement Witnesses: e

with the fixed head, a cross-bar fixedly con- A. O. BEHEL,

nected with the support, rods connected With E. D. E. N. BEHEL.

